Threshold vs Beyond Haunted
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Threshold
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Threshold is a paranormal investigation command center for capturing, monitoring, organizing, and reviewing field evidence in one place. Use Spirit Box Lab, record EVP audio, capture custom video, monitor magnetic fields, motion, vibration, and audio levels, take photos, and keep everything connected by Session and Area. Create a Session for each investigation and preserve audio, video, photos, motion events, markers, notes, magnetic context, and Spirit Box Lab runs for later review. SPIRIT BOX LAB Spirit Box Lab uses calibrated live magnetic-field and device-motion activity to generate indexed word outputs from a curated 2,048-entry production vocabulary. Outputs are driven by live sensor activity rather than released through a simple repeating word timer. Choose a Session, Area, sensitivity, and spoken-output setting before beginning a run. Generated outputs, timing, contributing sensor activity, and Trigger Details are saved for later review and interpretation. Free users receive 15 minutes of complimentary Spirit Box Lab monitoring time, with up to 5 minutes per run. Upgrade to Threshold Pro for unlimited Spirit Box Lab access. CAPTURE INVESTIGATION EVIDENCE • Record EVP audio • Capture video with Threshold’s custom camera interface • Use pinch zoom, precision zoom, and torch controls • Take rapid investigation photos • Monitor a fixed camera scene for motion-triggered events • Import supported audio, video, and photos • Save evidence directly to a Session and Area MAGNETIC CONTEXT On supported devices, Threshold can preserve magnetic activity alongside captured evidence. • EVP audio and video can include synchronized magnetic timelines • Photos and Motion Camera images can include capture-time magnetic snapshots • Review readings, baselines, changes, activity levels, and timestamps • Add markers from a selected magnetic timeline moment Rotating the device briefly recalibrates magnetic sensing. Threshold may display CALIBRATING before live readings resume. If magnetic sensing is unavailable, capture and review continue normally without magnetic context. LIVE INVESTIGATION TOOLS Magnetic Field Monitor View live magnetic-field readings, baseline changes, peak activity, and individual axis values. Motion Camera Monitor a fixed scene and capture images when visual movement is detected. Vibration Beacon Monitor device movement and surface vibration with adjustable sensitivity. Audio Level Meter Watch relative sound-level changes through a responsive live display. REVIEW IMPORTANT MOMENTS • Review audio with detailed waveform timelines • Review synchronized magnetic activity when available • Replay key moments • Add timestamped markers and notes • Review saved videos, photos, and motion events • Review magnetic snapshots saved with supported images • Review saved Spirit Box Lab runs and Trigger Details • Move evidence between Sessions and Areas ORGANIZED BY SESSION AND AREA Threshold keeps investigation evidence connected to its context. Use Sessions for separate investigations and Areas for rooms, zones, or locations within each Session. Evidence can also remain Unassigned and be reorganized later. SESSION EXPORT Threshold Pro can export a structured Session package containing investigation details, evidence files, markers, Motion Camera metadata, Spirit Box run data, magnetic timelines, and magnetic snapshots. THRESHOLD PRO Upgrade once for lifetime access to: • Unlimited Sessions • Unlimited Areas • Unlimited saved evidence • Unlimited markers • Unlimited Spirit Box Lab access • Session export Threshold Pro is a one-time in-app purchase. No subscription is required. PRIVACY-FOCUSED Threshold does not require an account. Core investigation data is stored locally on your device, and you control what you export or share. Threshold is designed for iPhone.
Beyond Haunted
This app uses real device sensors to detect paranormal activity, offering a more unsettling and authentic ghost hunting experience. It features multiple instruments, including EMF and spirit box, and provides detailed evidence logging.
- Real sensor-based readings
- EMF, barometer, and vibration meter
- Spirit box tuned to haunted locations
- EVP audio and SLS video recording
- Offline searchable archive of case files
- Apple Watch integration for pulse monitoring
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Most ghost hunting apps make their readings up. You already know the ones. The needle that jumps on cue. The thermometer on a phone that has never had a temperature sensor. The figure that appears because the app decided it was time for a figure. Ghost Kit does none of that, and it is more unsettling for it. Every number on screen comes off a real sensor in your hand. When the field climbs in an empty hallway, it climbed. When a figure locks onto something in the dark, the camera genuinely found a shape there. Nothing here is invented. Which means when something does happen, you have to sit with it. FIVE INSTRUMENTS THAT ACTUALLY MEASURE PROXIMITY watches four sensors at once and only speaks when two of them move together, in the same moment, for no reason either of them can explain. An outlet cannot trigger it. Neither can you. Most nights it says nothing at all, which is exactly why the nights it does say something are worth paying attention to. SENSORS is your EMF meter, barometer and vibration reader. Set a baseline in a quiet room and every reading afterwards is a measured change from the way you found the place. Peak hold keeps the spike on the dial after it has gone, so you do not lose it while your head is turned. VOICES is a spirit box tuned to 758 real, documented, haunted locations. Point it at a sanatorium and the words that surface come from that building's own rooms, its own people, its own reported activity. A lighthouse speaks differently from an asylum. Underneath the words runs a bed of speech fragments that are not words at all, so the app can never be accused of having said anything. Whatever you hear in it, you heard. EVIDENCE records EVP audio and SLS video with every instrument logged alongside on one timeline. A voice at twelve seconds, checked against what the room's field and air were doing at twelve seconds. Sudden level changes are flagged automatically and any flag replays that moment alone, at half speed, over and over, until you are sure. ARCHIVE is 758 case files across all fifty states, searchable, readable offline, tied straight into the spirit box. IT TELLS YOU WHEN IT IS PROBABLY NOTHING This is the part no other app in this category will do. Ghost Kit flags sounds that arrive with a movement of the phone and calls them what they almost certainly are: you. It tells you when a high EMF reading is your own laptop. It tells you when the air pressure has been falling all evening because weather is coming through. There is a glossary that explains why orbs are dust and why shadow figures live at the edge of your vision. An app willing to say that has earned the right to be believed when it says a reading is genuine. WEAR IT ON YOUR WRIST With an Apple Watch, Ghost Kit measures the one thing a phone never can: you. Your own pulse, recorded beside the audio, so you can see the moment your heart went before you consciously noticed anything. The watch is also the remote. Start a recording, stop it, and mark your own noises without ever touching the phone, so it can lie still in the dark exactly where you put it. When something registers, your wrist taps. BUILT WITH SOME CARE It never gives you a direction or a distance, because there is nothing to chase and chasing things in the dark is how people get hurt. It hides itself when it notices you moving. It never sends a notification and never asks for your attention. It does absolutely nothing until you open it. Everything you record stays on your phone. No account. No cloud. No analytics. No ads. No subscription. Not now, not later. Ghost Kit is an entertainment app. It does not detect, measure or communicate with anything supernatural, and it says so before you ever use it. What it does is give you real instruments, tell you the truth about what they are reading, and then get out of your way. From Beyond Haunted. beyondhaunted.com
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Beyond Haunted at none against Threshold's 1. On price, update cadence, ads and device support there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Threshold sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Beyond Haunted asks for nothing beyond the download.
Threshold ships an update weekly, Beyond Haunted every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 25, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Threshold | Beyond Haunted |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better |
| Number of ratings | — | 3 — better |
| Update frequency | Weekly | Every 5 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | — | Free |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.6 | 17.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 8 MB | 4 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 9+ |
| Developer | Brandon Romero | Joshua Nason |
In-app purchases
Threshold
- Threshold Pro Lifetime$14.99
Beyond Haunted
No in-app purchases









